The body's nonspecific defiance against invading pathogens is known as innate immunity and includes the following:
mechanical barriers and surface secretions
1. The intact skin and mucous membranes of the body. These provide a high degree of protection against pathogens.
2. The sebaceous secretions and sweat of the skin contain bactericidal and fungicidal fatty acids that can kill bacteria and fungi.
3. Normal bacterial flora of the skin may produce various antimicrobial substances such as bacteriocines and acids.
Humoral defence mechanisms
1. Lysozyme. This is an enzyme found in most tissue fluids apart from cerebrospinal fluid, urine, and sweat. It can kill bacteria.
2. Interferon. Inhibits viruses from replicating
3. Complement. This is a heat labile serum that can destroy gram-negative bacteria.
Xylem transports water and minerals from the roots to the leaves of the plant, where it is used in the production of food.
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Explanation:
Continents are the seven main divisions of land on Earth. A continental shelf extends from the coastline of a continent to a drop-off point called the shelf break. From the break, the shelf descends toward the deep ocean floor in what is called the continental slope.
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A catalyst
Explanation:
Enzymes are not a catlysy
<span>Meiosis consists of one round of DNA replication accompanied by two rounds of cell division.
Before meiosis starts, the cell </span><span>goes through an interphase period in which it grows, replicates its chromosomes to have enough material to divide for the daughter cells.
Unlike mitosis, meiosis has 2 cell division (meiosis
I and II). At the end of the first division, </span><span>each cell has half the number of chromosomes of the parent cell. At the end of the second division</span> there is separation of the sister chromatids
